I am in South San Jose and I got woken up by a MyShake and a general iOS alert about an M6 (at the time) earthquake in Redwood Valley, CA… 165 miles away.

I hope everyone near the epicenter of the earthquake is okay, I didn’t feel a thing. I’m wondering if alert distance thresholds should be adjusted. I’m quite far from the epicenter and I’m not sure an alert was necessary for me.

#earthquake #california #sanjose #sfba

The kids and I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once tonight. They were both super wowed by the movie and rated it 10 out of 10 (my rating is also 10 out of 10).

Everything Everywhere All at Once is an action, sci-fi and family drama film and it is one of the best movies I have seen in years. Visually stunning, all original and a perfectly balanced movie that straddles so many genres. Everything Everywhere All at Once had me laughing and crying. It is exceedingly funny, yet heartbreaking and touching. I highly recommended Everything Everywhere All at Once.

This movie is a masterpiece.

The Googly Eye is the inverse of the Everything Bagel.

My longer review of the film can be found here:
https://ultramookie.com/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

#movies #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #scifi #action #drama #family

After having Taco Bell with my son, we walked back to the car and I found this on the floor next to my car.

#spongebob #taco #tacos #tacobell

Disclosure Day was entertaining, but it isn't one of Steven Spielberg's best. Disclosure Day tackles the same themes as Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film Contact, but wraps the themes in action sequences. The main cast are all great -- Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor do great, Eve Hewson is fine and Colin Firth is fantastic.

The script by David Koepp starts the audience mid-action and for a while treats the audinece as intelligent and does a lot to show instead of tell. But, as the movie progresses, there is a lot more telling and not showing -- which is unfortuante. The script aimed for the events of the movie to be profound, but it never reached that level.

Janusz Kamiński's cinematography was beautifully naturalistic and that worked well for the mulitple oners that were done in the movie -- including a four-minute oner with Emily Blunt that was very well executed.

John Williams' score works for the film while it was running, but it was a bit forgettable without any themes that I can remember after the credits rolled.

There are a few nits that I have about the film, the biggest being the ultimate lack of impact of a bag full of data.

Disclosure Day is worth a watch, but there are better movies tackling these themes. A better film dealing with aliens and religion is Contact. A better Spielberg film dealing with aliens is Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Rated 7 out of 10.

#movies #DisclosureDay #SciFi

Lately I have been moving my workflows away from Microsoft Office and onto LibreOffice. For a while, I couldn't figure out how to manage images in a Writer document like I did in Word, but finally figured it out.

I did a quick write up of what I experienced and how I was able to setup Writer to work like Word -- and keep my workflow the same. It was an easy change.

https://ultramookie.com/2026/06/libreoffice-writer-images/

cc: @LibreOffice

#software #libreoffice #microsoft #office #office365 #howto

It's been four months since I brought up We're Dreaming using #snac and I'm really liking how well the instance has been running. Maintenance has been easy. I started on 2.90-dev and have gone through three upgrades which were all boring (aka easy).

snac is rather awesome software. It's lightweight, exceedingly fast and just works.

Thanks @The Real Grunfink (and other contributors to the project).

#snac2 #fediverse

The current state of business.

#business #ai #advertising #advertisement

Using @LibreOffice is refreshing. Not only is it fast, but it is awesomely AI free. It runs on all platforms that I use (macOS, Linux and Windows). And is free.

#libreoffice #opensource #oss #ai #llm #software #office

Yea, this is me.

Overheard: “I feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

#ai #llm #drugs

Testing the new functionality in @MastoBlaster - Official Account to post videos.

#mastoblaster #snac #fediverse